Popular poets are the parish priests of the Muse retailing her ancient divinations to a long since converted public.

Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.

To be interested in the changing seasons is a happier state of mind than to be hopelessly in love with spring.

Do not have evil-doers for friends, do not have low people for friends: have virtuous people for friends, have for friends the best of men.

There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval.

The passions grafted on wounded pride are the most inveterate; they are green and vigorous in old age.

Each religion, by the help of more or less myth, which it takes more or less seriously, proposes some method of fortifying the human soul and enabling it to make its peace with its destiny.

Intelligence is quickness in seeing things as they are.

Experience seems to most of us to lead to conclusions, but empiricism has sworn never to draw them.

Man is a gregarious animal, and much more so in his mind than in his body. He may like to go alone for a walk, but he hates to stand alone in his opinions.

The Difficult is that which can be done immediately; the Impossible that which takes a little longer.

...it is far more important to know who you are than where you are going, for where you are going will certainly change as the world about you changes.

Your relationships with others are always a direct reflection of the relationship you have with yourself.

The first Star Wars movie had come out in 1977 and had become this huge phenomenon with all the toys and everything - it just kind of swept America.

Do your duty, and don't swerve from it. Do that which your conscience tells you to be right, and leave the consequences to God.

Baseball is the only game left for people. To play basketball, you have to be 7 feet 6 inches. To play football, you have to be the same width.

The faster you get back to people, the less brilliant you have to be.

Death ends our woes, and the kind grave shuts up the mournful scene.

People are racist to us, sir, so why can't we be racist to rangas?

I love London. I loved it when I went there in the late '50s.

We cannot understand all the traits we have inherited. Sometimes we can be strangers to ourselves.